OT: Survey about trust and participation in online communities

Hello there,

My name is Sherida Ryan and I am a Ph.D. student in Adult Education
and Community Development at the University of Toronto. I am sending
this email to invite you to participate in a survey that explores
trust and participation in Usenet groups. This survey is part of my
doctoral research, supervised by Professor Jack Quarter.

Trust helps us to function in a complex world where we are often
dependent on other people for information and support. However, online
interaction can make the development of trust difficult. How do you
decide to trust someone you have never met, whose identity you can't
verify, in an environment that has few standards to guide behaviour?

By understanding how people come to trust each other online and by
exploring whether this affects their level of participation, I hope to
develop guidelines that will improve interaction and increase the
benefits that people get from being members of online groups.

The survey that I am inviting you to participate in should not take
more than 15 minutes to complete. I am looking for people who post as
well as people who only read messages. Your participation is voluntary
and can be terminated at any time. Your responses will remain
anonymous and all survey results will be grouped together for any
future publication or presentation. Each participant who completes the
survey may choose to enter a draw to win one of two $50.00 (CAD) gift
certificates from Amazon.ca

If you are interested in participating, please click on the URL below
to find out more about the survey. In order to access the survey, you
will be asked for your email address. Your email address remains
confidential, even from me, and is strictly for administrative
purposes. Providing this information will allow you, should you decide
to participate, to return to the survey and complete it at your
leisure.

* w w w .oise.utoronto.ca/surveys/surveyviewer2/index.php?surveyID=449I2

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me:
sryan@oise.utoronto.ca

Thank you very much for your time and your help

Sherida Ryan
Ph.D. Candidate
OISE/UT, Adult Education and Community Development

Hmmm.

I'll bet the response is pretty sad, considering that the first thing you're
asked to do is supply your e-mail addy.

It's spoofs like this that make me think that if I was doing epidemiological
research on a subjective scale, I would offer to pay the respondents for
making out my answer and contact sheets.

cactus jammies ========= money works where spam just sits there ========
pps get a grant ===

"Waterspider" <nospam@all . com > wrote in message
news:1318prpbrgg5pd0@corp.supernews . com ...
> Hmmm.
>
> I'll bet the response is pretty sad, considering that the first thing
> you're asked to do is supply your e-mail addy.
>

"Cactus Jammies" <cactusjammies@retinalcircus.orb> wrote in message
news:gv8Rh.39590$x9.6914@edtnps89...
> It's spoofs like this that make me think that if I was doing
> epidemiological research on a subjective scale, I would offer to pay the
> respondents for making out my answer and contact sheets.

Dunno... she's probably a legit student working on her thesis, but one that
neglected to study us users enough to know that most of us aren't
promiscuous with our email addys.

>
> cactus jammies ========= money works where spam just sits there ========
> pps get a grant ===
>
> "Waterspider" <nospam@all . com > wrote in message
> news:1318prpbrgg5pd0@corp.supernews . com ...
>> Hmmm.
>>
>> I'll bet the response is pretty sad, considering that the first thing
>> you're asked to do is supply your e-mail addy.
>>
>
>

There is a PubMed article that cites that respondents to things like this,
(i.e. contact for gathering information about treatment and such) would just
as soon report their information through a university study than be part of
a Pharmaceutical Company questionaire dealing with the same things. I am
sure that this is part of that study.

cactus jammies ------------------------------
<sryan@oise.utoronto.ca> wrote in message
news:1175730411.365855.145540@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups . com ...
> Hello there,
>
> My name is Sherida Ryan and I am a Ph.D. student in Adult Education
> and Community Development at the University of Toronto. I am sending
> this email to invite you to participate in a survey that explores
> trust and participation in Usenet groups. This survey is part of my
> doctoral research, supervised by Professor Jack Quarter.
>
> Trust helps us to function in a complex world where we are often
> dependent on other people for information and support. However, online
> interaction can make the development of trust difficult. How do you
> decide to trust someone you have never met, whose identity you can't
> verify, in an environment that has few standards to guide behaviour?
>
> By understanding how people come to trust each other online and by
> exploring whether this affects their level of participation, I hope to
> develop guidelines that will improve interaction and increase the
> benefits that people get from being members of online groups.
>
> The survey that I am inviting you to participate in should not take
> more than 15 minutes to complete. I am looking for people who post as
> well as people who only read messages. Your participation is voluntary
> and can be terminated at any time. Your responses will remain
> anonymous and all survey results will be grouped together for any
> future publication or presentation. Each participant who completes the
> survey may choose to enter a draw to win one of two $50.00 (CAD) gift
> certificates from Amazon.ca
>
> If you are interested in participating, please click on the URL below
> to find out more about the survey. In order to access the survey, you
> will be asked for your email address. Your email address remains
> confidential, even from me, and is strictly for administrative
> purposes. Providing this information will allow you, should you decide
> to participate, to return to the survey and complete it at your
> leisure.
>
> * w w w .oise.utoronto.ca/surveys/surveyviewer2/index.php?surveyID=449I2
>
> If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me:
> sryan@oise.utoronto.ca
>
> Thank you very much for your time and your help
>
> Sherida Ryan
> Ph.D. Candidate
> OISE/UT, Adult Education and Community Development
>
>